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Curtis Stone is a celebrity chef, best-selling author, TV personality, and entrepreneur. When it comes to cooking, his philosophy is to cook as Mother Nature intended: buy locally produced seasonal & organic ingredients, keep recipes simple, and allow the food to speak for itself.
Curtis returns as host of season five of Top Chef Masters on Food Network Canada. The series pits 13 world-renowned chefs against each other to see how well they fare in fierce culinary competition. Each week will whittle down the chefs until the finale where one winner is crowned the winner and will receive the grand prize of $100,000 for the charity of his or her choice. The chefs are bringing more than their knives to the table; they're bringing their egos and stirring up the drama...all for charity.
Born in Melbourne, Australia, Curtis left Victoria University in 1994 at the age of 18 to follow his passion for food. His strong will and love for quality cuisine led to a job cooking at The Savoy Hotel. Once a qualified chef, Curtis began travelling throughout Europe with his best mate. Three months into his travels Curtis arrived in London, broke and in need of a job. Determined to fulfil his dream of working in the world's best restaurants, he walked into legendary Chef Marco Pierre White's kitchen and offered to work for free in exchange for the opportunity to work alongside the three-star Michelin genius. After proving his worth, Curtis was brought on staff and remained at The Grill Room at Café Royal for two years.
From Marco's Grill Room, Curtis advanced to Sous Chef at the Mirabelle where he contributed to the restaurant's highly revered Mirabelle Cookbook. Curtis remained at the Mirabelle for two years, during which time it was awarded a prestigious Michelin Star. Curtis was then handed the reins to Marco Pierre's flagship restaurant, Quo Vadis, where he received critical acclaim and remained until 2003 when he made the leap to television. His first series Surfing The Menu ran for three seasons in 26 countries.
In 2006 Curtis made his debut in the United States via his own hit series Take Home Chef for TLC. The series has been a huge international success being viewed in over 70 countries around the world. More recently, Curtis has been seen on NBC's hit series The Biggest Loser, teaching contestants how to make good nutritional choices and prepare healthy meals. He is also a regular contributor on The Today Show where he provides viewers with tips and delicious recipes to try at home. In addition, Curtis co-hosted NBC's reality competition America's Next Great Restaurant and took over as host of the third season of Food Network Canada's hit series Top Chef Masters.
Curtis was the first chef to have an eponymous product line sold at the prestigious retailer Williams-Sonoma in the USA. His line of sleek and eco-friendly kitchen solutions is currently sold globally. The functional and stunning products have been praised in a variety of publications including The New York Times and O: The Oprah Magazine. The complete range of Kitchen Solutions is available on his website.
As the author of five cookbooks, Curtis has shared his culinary know-how with readers around the globe. "Surfing the Menu" and "Surfing the Menu Again", penned with his friend and fellow Aussie chef Ben O'Donoghue, were followed by "Cooking with Curtis" (Pavilion 2005), a solo effort that celebrated seasonal fare and brought his chef's expertise down to earth for the home cook. Setting out to prove that good food doesn't need to be fussy, Curtis then released "Relaxed Cooking with Curtis Stone: Recipes to Put You in My Favorite Mood" (Clarkson Potter 2009). Curtis launched his fifth cookbook, a New York Times best-seller, "What's For Dinner?: Recipes for a Busy Life" in April 2013 (Ballantine).
Curtis has fostered long-term relationships with charities around the world, including Feeding America in the US, and Cottage by the Sea and Make-A-Wish in Australia. He currently lives in Los Angeles with his wife, actress Lindsay Price, son, Hudson, and golden retriever Sully. In his spare time he enjoys hiking, gardening, surfing—and cooking. For Curtis, cooking always brings fun. "There really is no better gift than a home-cooked meal and enjoying a good laugh around the table."
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Join the US Government for #TradeChat and Get Your Exporting Questions Answered
by Stephen Morris, Community Moderator
- Created: April 29, 2013, 2:15 pm
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Export, trade and finance related agencies across the federal government are teaming up during World Trade Month - May 2013 - to host a series of Twitter Q&A's for U.S. companies. Businesses can participate by tweeting their questions using the hashtag #TradeChat during the scheduled times.
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For information the Twitter chat series, visit http://www.ustda.gov/TradeChat . A live feed of the chats will be broadcasted and archived on USTDA's website for individuals who are not connected to Twitter.
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The River Studies Center at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse (UW-L) and its partners—UW-L Continuing Education and Extension, USGS Upper Midwest Environmental Science Center and Winona State University Large River Studies Center—are pleased to announce the 4th Biennial Symposium of the International Society of River Science (ISRS) will be held at the La Crosse Convention Center in historic downtown La Crosse on the banks of the Mississippi River. We expect 250 to 400 international river scientists will be coming to La Crosse to present a wide array of research. Previous symposia were held in St. Petersburg, USA (2010); Berlin, Germany (2011); and Beijing, People's Republic of China (2013).
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My all time top 10 NHL power forwards
By Allan Muir
Here's the thing about listing the greatest power forwards in NHL history: the concept of what exactly constitutes a power forward is about as loose as the definition of comedy.
So how best to explain where this list is coming from? While I generally avoid Wikipedia like a dark alley after a bank run, I actually like the parameters they set on the term:
"A forward who is big and strong, equally capable of playing physically or scoring goals and would most likely have high totals in both points and penalties. It is usually used in reference to a forward who is physically large, with the toughness to dig the puck out of the corners, possesses offensive instincts…and willingly engages in fights when required."
It's not perfect, but it's close to what I'm thinking. That's why you won't see Mark Messier on this list — he's more of a powerful forward than a power forward by my definition. Same with Gordie Howe.
I like my power forwards to bring a bit more menace to the table. That's a quality inherent in each of these picks. Disagree? Make your case in the comment section below.
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A PhD student named Paul Harrison has an interesting program that looks for ways of assembling complex tiles. He found a set of tiles that effectively emulate rule 110, among other things. His website can be found here -
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Ghost Diagrams is a program that takes sets of tiles and tries to find patterns into which they may be formed. The patterns it finds when given randomly chosen tiles are often surprising.
It turns out that tiling patterns are a form of computation of equal power to Turing machines, lambda calculus, and cellular automata. For example, here is a tileset implementing "Rule 110", a cellular automaton known to be capable of universal computation.
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Thanks for linking to me. :-)
Here are some more screenshots:
With regards simulating cellular automata, there's a few interesting things about tile sets. Cellular automata are deterministic causal systems, whereas tile sets are non-causal constraint systems. So a tile set simulation of a cellular automaton not only encodes the rules of the automaton, but also the fact that it is deterministic causal.
This means (though I haven't followed this up in detail) one can think about tile sets that are "nearly" deterministic causal. One can add two tiles for a particular context, yielding a non-deterministic cellular automaton. Or one can omit a tile for a certain context entirely, so that any resultant assemblages can be seen as runs of a cellular automaton that "just happen to" never produce that particular context.
Yes, I notice that. Legal constructions in a constraint system are in general "multiway".
I've been looking at various modified NKS systems that incorporate "underdetermined" transitions for independent reasons. A CA with one random output case in its rule table is the simplest example - multiple evolutions are possible from a given initial. Or you can consider a "machine with input" CA or ICA, that switches its rule at each step according to an external sequence. If the rules is switches among, differ only in a single case in their rule table, effectively you are determining the outcome of that case according to an external sequence. If that sequence is random it behaves much like the previous. But you can also manipulate the application order to maximize this or minimize that e.g.
I take your point about Wolfram on constraint systems, that the difficulty of satisfying complicated constraints is not in itself a reason not to look at constraint systems. It is a reason not to expect most natural cases of complexity to be caused by specific, "only this works", satisfaction of multiple constraints. But he also found it was relatively easy to get iterated schemes to approach constraint satisfaction without reaching it. He focused less on constraints so easy to satisfy, that large sets of possible patterns are compatible with the constraints. Although he considered something similar later as multi-way systems.
This suggests a couple of additional things you might look at. One, you might look at the variety of typical patterns produce by your tile sets, without the absolute preference for single choice moves or the closest to the center criterion, and without searching for a tiling. Just, if tiles with these edges are thrown together making possible legal moves, what sort of (potentially tangled rather than tiled) shapes result? When you've seen an instance, keep it in a list that you won't stop when you find, and will backtrack from if you get stuck without finding a new pattern. For a given tile set, then ask, what are the first n (limited size) patterns found this way? In other words, just typical evolutions in tile-growth space, without "trying" to get an X-ee or a Y-ee anything. Empirically, the idea is such shapes would arise naturally from a soup of such fitted parts.
Two, you might look at the shapes you find internally with the existing algorithm, but from which you have to backtrack as things are now. Find large shapes that eventually "get stuck" or "don't fit" somewhere. These would be analogs of approaching constraint satisfaction without actually doing so. Empirically, one might think of this is trying to minimize some energy and getting enough of the system into a state that does, with bits sticking out that fail to, but that are energetically less "expensive" than the gain from the rest of the shape.
I should also say I see real aesthetic potential here. I particularly liked your Celtic knots, for example.
My suspicion is that there are constraint systems that can reach full satisfaction in "near" linear time, eg O(n log n) or O(n^2). Part of the algorithm in "Ghost Diagrams" is to randomly backtrack when it gets stuck. The amount backtracked is usually small, but sometimes quite large -- a scale free distribution, in fact. There are a number of tile sets that can be assembled in reasonable time using this strategy, but not with backtracking of more uniform size. Such patterns are often the most visually interesting, too.
I also think there might be physically plausible analogues of this at a molecular level. Imagine a soup of molecules having scale free distribution of sizes, thus impacting each other with a scale-free distribution of forces and knocking a scale free distribution of sizes of chunks off each other. Or somesuch.
The current Ghost Diagram algorithm can be seen as a simulation of this where "chunk getting knocked off" events are much rarer than "tile being added" events.
I understand the algorithm and it is a good one for search, because anything stuck with small jostles will eventually chance upon a large one and shake out of that pathway. But I don't find it all that realistic, physically. It is much more likely the jostle scale is bounded above, a function of temperature e.g. Which means a lot more real world semi-patterns will arise in the various "stuck" configurations, rather than continually shaking harder until they find a path to a perfect fit. It is good search programming but not plausible as self assembly, at least in most cases.
I think the less perfect patterns encountered along the way would be interesting in their own right, however. I encourage you to look at some of them. The perfected patterns are neat and one can imagine deliberately engineering them by mimicking your procedure. But the imperfect ones that would be created by bounded-scale backtracking would also be interesting. Try treating the backtracking as a model parameter, and see what sorts of patterns you get with none, with backtracking only a single step, with backtracking 1-3 steps with a damped distribution (something as simple as {1,1,1,1,2,2,3} would work fine), and compare the result to scale free backtracking.
Programmatically, put in a modular subroutine at that step and let it depend on a global parameter. Then do runs - from this set of allowed tiles, here are some shapes that arise with no backtracking, with backtracking 1, with backtracking 1-3 damped, with scale free backtracking. I am sure the results would be interesting. The point generalizes. To understand the impact of a given step in an algorithm on the overall behaviors seen, one does "sensitivity analysis" on that step.
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Amid a wall of pessimism, it's not hard to see a bullish case for AppleAaron Pressman at The Exchange18 hrs ago
Update: Apple's iPhone renaissance got an early start. The company just reported sales of almost 44 million iPhones in the first quarter, about 6 million more than Wall Street expected, helping drive revenue and profits higher than expected, as well. Shares of Apple jumped 8% to over $566 in after hours trading.
Apple (AAPL) grew from the edge of bankruptcy to become the most valuable company in the U.S. stock market by making highly profitable devices for fast-growing markets, whether it was iPods, iPhones, or — at least at the start — iPads.
Lately, it's been all stagnation and shrinkage for Apple — and its investors. At $528.60 on Wednesday, Apple shares remain 25% below their September 2012 all-time high of $705.07 while, over the same period, rivals such as Google (GOOGL) and Microsoft (MSFT) have posted big gains.
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If you want to stump a car buff, ask what the Acura RLX, Dodge Dart, Ford Fusion, Ford Escape and Mercedes-Benz SL roadster have in common. When there's no answer, explain that all have been recalled for fixes during the past few months — for problems that occurred early in the lifespan of the vehicle.
McDonald's gets it right with focus on 'core' markets and menuChris Nichols at The Exchange21 hrs ago
If McDonald's (MCD) focus for the months ahead were to be described in a word, "core" would suffice, for both its menu and its markets.
The world's biggest restaurant chain measured by sales indicated Tuesday that four of the largest countries in its system — including the U.S. — along with its best-known items will get considerable attention from the corporate office as it bids to restore customer growth and keep the menu workable.
In addition to the United States, "stabilizing key priority markets" of Germany, Japan and Australia will be critical to staving off competition, whether from Burger King (BKW) or Chipotle (CMG), either at home or abroad. The U.S. is Oak Brook, Ill.-based McDonald's most saturated market, with more than 14,000 stores. However, the top four countries together accounted for 56% of total global locations, making up 19,830 of the 35,429 restaurants McDonald's had at year end.
Apple looks bullish into earningsYahoo Finance at The Exchange1 day ago
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Why Netflix is raising your monthly bill as much as 20% — eventuallyAaron Pressman at The Exchange1 day ago
Netflix (NFLX) CEO Reed Hastings learned the hard way that announcing a big price increase can blow up into a huge controversy. So for his latest effort to charge more, he's moving slowly – very slowly.
Along with Monday's quarterly earnings release for Wall Street, Hastings said the cost of Netflix would go up $1 to $2 a month for new customers, depending on the country. Current customers will be "generously grandfathered" for at least a year, maybe two. Hastings had foreshadowed the increase on January's earnings call as well, confirming that Netflix was testing different price points.
But at the current popular price of $7.99 a month, Netflix is growing like mad and expanding worldwide. It gained almost 12 million paying members over the past year and revenue was up 24%. So why the need for a price increase?
Further, there's obviously some risk for Hastings with this tactic. Back in 2011, his plan to spin off DVD operations into a new unit called Qwikster and raise prices 60% had immediate consequences, as Netflix lost one million subscribers and its stock plunged almost 80% in a few months.
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There's no such thing as a "stock picker's market"Yahoo Finance at The Exchange1 day ago
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One of the most misused and destructive phrases in the investment world is the notion of a "stock picker's market." In a relentless uptrending market, investors become highly confident in their ability to pick stocks and almost any name they buy is going "up and to the right." We saw the most extreme example of this in 2013, which set a record in terms of breadth with 93% of stocks in the S&P 500 finishing positive on the year. Never mind the fact that a blindfolded monkey throwing darts was likely to pick a winning stock last year; most investors came out of 2013 believing they were the next Warren Buffett.
Love it or hate it, Obamacare is accomplishing its missionRick Newman at The Exchange2 days ago
Is it working?
After six months of partisan drama over the Affordable Care Act, there's finally enough reliable information to assess whether the law is doing what it was supposed to do. The qualified answer seems to be yes.
There have been too many controversies over the ACA to count, and it will be a long time before it becomes clear whether Obamacare, as it's known, is smart, cost-effective policy. But the law is fulfilling its main purpose: To provide health care for more people and reduce the portion of Americans without health insurance. "What's pretty amazing is the number of people who seem to have gotten coverage, even with all the problems," says analyst Gary Claxton of the nonprofit Kaiser Family Foundation.
Most of the attention has been focused on the politically charged question of whether enrollment through one of the exchanges created by the law would hit thresholds predicted before the ACA went into effect. So it was a victory of sorts for President Obama when he was able to announce recently that 8 million people have enrolled in Obamacare, considerably more than earlier predictions of 6 million to 7 million.
Huge week ahead: Estimize earnings preview for the week of April 21Yahoo Finance at The Exchange3 days ago
is a free open online platform that allows users to contribute their own financial forecasts. By tapping into the wisdom of the crowd, Estimize has created a data set that is more representative of actual market expectations and is more accurate than the traditional Wall Street consensus up to 69.5% of the time.
The astounding power of "economic elites"Rick Newman at The Exchange5 days ago
"America's claims to being a democratic society are seriously threatened." That's the startling claim in a provocative new study by Martin Gilens of Princeton University and Benjamin I. Page of Northwestern University. Many of us like to believe that popular opinion influences policymakers, at least indirectly. But that doesn't seem to be the case. "The general public has little or no independent influence" on policymaking, the two political scientists found. Instead, Gilens and Page found that "economic elites" have a "quite substantial, highly significant, independent impact on policy." Groups representing business interests are the next most powerful influence on policymakers. Sometimes, those two groups are aligned on an issue—they both tend to prefer low taxes, for instance--which generates the highest likelihood of government action. The complex study examined 1,779 public policy issues between 1981 and 2002, including the policy preferences of middle-income people, the wealthy, and interest groups such as lobbying organizations, unions, and membership associations like AARP. The researchers then isolated instances when a policy change actually took place, to figure out who, essentially, got their way.
One thing you can't say to voters about the economyRick Newman at The Exchange6 days ago
You can point out how rich the 1% are, or pound home how hard it is to keep up these days. But whatever you do, don't act like there's a "recovery."
That's the advice from a prominent public-policy firm to Democratic politicians running for reelection this year. Democracy Corps, founded by Democratic strategists James Carville and Stan Greenberg, recently conducted a series of polls to determine how candidates can best connect with voters as they campaign for the 2014 midterm elections in November. The results show just how disheartened many Americans are about their economic prospects, even though the recovery is technically entering its fifth year.
By some measures, the economy is getting back to normal. The unemployment rate is down from a peak of 10% in 2010 to 6.7% today. In aggregate, Americans have regained all the wealth lost during the twin housing and stock-market busts, and then some. After six years of extraordinary intervention, the Federal Reserve is beginning to back away from the super-easy monetary policies it adopted to nurse the economy through dark times.


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Christopher Moseley could be facing capital murder charges, and the death penalty, if it turns out that the victim, Alexis Rose, was pregnant.
"whether or not the victim in the case was pregnant at the time is a very significant factor and could make a difference as to how serious the charge ultimately is that will be brought against the defendant." says Charlottesville attorney Scott Goodman, who is not connected to the case.
Moseley is currently facing first degree murder charges after allegedly stabbing Rose to death in a grocery store parking lot on the night of April 30. He was arrested by State Police on Interstate 64 after he abandoned his own car in Goochland County, and the allegedly stole a pickup truck
It's very difficult to know what evidence they have against the defendant in this case, but one thing that is very incriminating circumstance, is that it appears the defendant was in flight away from the scene." adds Goodman.
"That's always something prosecutors and police use against individuals charged with a crime. Flight from the scene is certainly taken, in many circumstances, as indication or admission of guilt"
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Lockout Update Day 107: There is still a lockout.
Look for the NHLPA to present the NHL with a counter proposal today. I would like to make some predictions, if I may:
The proposal will be similar to the PA's last one, but with some minor tweaks.
Donald Fehr will hold a press conference, indicating that a deal is at hand and that their offer is so close that the NHL would hardly have to move at all in order to come to an agreement.
The offer would actually be nowhere close, and Bill Daly will be annoyed and upset.
Three for three? We'll find out tonight!
Snarkiness aside, every single NHL insider to a man is confident that there will be a season. I guess you and I have to believe them. If Bob McKenzie, Darren Dreger, Pierre Lebrun, Damien Cox, etc. all see a resolution by January 11, who are we to disagree?
I also think that if an agreement isn't reached by January 11, and the NHL cancels the season on January 12, that the two sides will have a few more hurried meetings. And if a CBA is reached by January 20, I think the NHL will "undo" the canceled season and we'll still have one. Too many millions of dollars on the line.
Stefan Elliott went 17 games without a point - all of October and all of November - for Lake Erie. He had just one point in his first 22 contests. He's finally turning things around though, as he's posted seven points in his last eight games and is plus-7 in that span, including two goals on Saturday - his second and third of the year.
After three points in 14 games, Bobby Butler has 14 points in his last nine games for Albany. He has 11 goals in those nine games. The Devils don't need a pure goal scorer on the wing do they?
Those Malcolm Subban owners who were worried about him based on his play, certainly had their mind set at ease Sunday. He was dynamite. Other than one brain fart (in which he whined to the ref about a penalty called on him rather than watch the shot that was coming at him), he had a solid game against the USA.
I was very impressed by Jacob Trouba on the American team. Winnipeg's ninth overall pick was thought to be three or four years away, but I might move that projection up by a year based on his performance. His three goals lead the team - he's a defensemen, remember - but he's always there when something is happening offensively.
Another rearguard who has been very good is Mike Reilly, a Columbus draft pick (fourth round in 2011). We all know the situation on the blue line in Columbus, with Tim Erixon, Ryan Murray on the way, and John Moore and Jack Johnson already there - so the organization can afford to wait on him. I'm sure he'll play out his full college slate, of which he has three years ahead of him still.
Still with Team USA: Least impressed - or rather, most disappointed - Rocco Grimaldi. This is based on a little more than four periods that I've seen him play. Just not seeing it. I'm seeing a guy with talent, but who is years away from making use of it in the NHL. Years and years.
Montreal prospect Alex Galchenyuk leads the US with five points in three games. Goaltender John Gibson, an Anaheim own, has been nothing short of stellar.
Brendan Ross had a nice breakdown/preview of the WJC's draft eligible guys. You can find it right here. Including this gem about Slovakia's Marko Dano:
Potential late round project type of prospect that plays physical and owns good hockey sense and a heavy shot. He can be a bit individualistic at times but that could help him on a team that will need his offense. Looking to make a name for himself.
Dano has four points in the tournament so far, putting him in a tie for seventh.
And while you're looking at prospects, you can take a look at pretty much all of them over at DobberProspects. We're constantly adding profiles, including this one on Team USA's Riley Barber. Rich Dillon also has a fresh ramblings up based on the WJC and you can find that here.
Happy New Year everyone! The year 2012 started off great. But, from a fantasy hockey standpoint, finished not so great. I just hope everyone who is still around will not let the lawyers ruin forever what is a fun game. And I'm talking about fantasy hockey, not hockey. And I hope that most of the people who left and - probably smartly - are just ignoring everything for now, will return to this fun game when things get going either in January or October.
The Spengler Cup Final is set for this morning at 6am ET, which makes no sense because not a single game before this one had a 6am start. In fact, 9am was the earliest prior to this. And I know they're not catering to the Eastern Time Zone, but come on - if your games are repeatedly falling in either Time Slot A or in Time Slot B, then your Final game should be starting at one of those times.
I tried digging up stats for this tourney, and failed. Anyone have a link? I've watched about five periods of this - great hockey. If anything, I've been guilty of just forgetting to turn it on at two in the afternoon. Otherwise I would have caught more.
Some interesting suggestions here for the NHL on television if and when they return soon, courtesy of The Hockey Writers.
Uh oh - Danny Briere is out with a wrist injury. He'll be sidelined for two weeks, which cuts into a shortened training camp, assuming a CBA is reached. His regular season production has been dipping steadily anyway.
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I love how the KHL has done this for their growing base of English fans. We'll see if they've added enough interest to sustain that fanbase even after the NHL starts. Anyway, here is the December 29th summary. Geoff Platt's penalty shot goal at 2:15 is a real beauty:
Grand Rapids goalie Thomas McCollum thought that the team was about to go on the power play. He skated to the bench on a delayed penalty that wasn't. Joe Colborne scores the empty netter:
Oh, and this may go without saying, but I'll say it anyway - ramblings will be late tomorrow. Happy New Year!
shingy said:
It's been said many times before that the owners basically view their teams as hobbies. Filthy rich. Obviously, nobody likes to lose money but control and power may be more coveted here. My heart says there'll be a season but my brain says the owners may flex their muscle and really show the players whose pulling the strings. Sport intimating life.
Bob McKenzie, Darren Dreger, Pierre Lebrun, Damien Cox etc need to pay the bills so I can't see them scaring away people to quickly. They can make a lot of sense sometimes but in what world would we expect any of them to say "forget about it people, it's over"..lol.
Anyway, I hope these morons see the light. Happy New Year.
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http://www.eliteprospects.com/league.php?leagueid=Spengler Cup&season=2012
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It has always started at noon local time of 31.Dec. Scedules have been adapted and changed since, but not the final, it has always been at this paricular time. Yeah, the Spengler cup could probably be sold better in America if the final took place later, but then again I'm glad that there are some hockeyheads that don't think about money only.....


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Archetypes, formerly known as ArchetypeMe, was created in 2011 with the goal of blending content, commerce, and community. The site offers users content and shopping suggestions based on a quiz that determines which of 12 personality "archetypes" they resemble (for example: "athlete" or "explorer").
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Archetypes raised debt from its executive chairman, Philosophy cosmetics founder Cristina Carlino, but it was not enough to keep the lights on. In November, the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection with between $10 million and $50 million in liabilities owed to between 50 and 99 debtors.
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Graphing a Path to the National Sites
Lesson Plan
The teacher will introduce the concept of graphs to the students and model for them various types of graphs. Students will then research how many national sites are located in their state and in one of the states represented on the 2010 quarters. Students will compare their findings and show the results on a graph type of their choice.
Students will demonstrate an understanding of graphs.
Two 20- to 30-minute sessions
Materials List
- 1 overhead projector (optional)
- 1 overhead transparency (or photocopy) of the "How Many Sites Are There?" worksheet
- 1 class map of the United States
- 1 copy of a text that gives information about graphs
- Chart paper
- Markers
- Pencils
- Graphing software
- Computer
- Bar graph
- Line graph
- Pictograph
- National Site
- Read the students a chosen text on graphs. Review the various types of graphs with the students.
- Model creating a class graph on simple topics (such as favorite colors, how the students get to school, how many brothers and sisters they have). Be sure to show the students how to complete each type of graph by using a pictograph, bar graph, and line graph.
- Describe the America the Beautiful Quarters® Program for background information. The program is described at . Tell the students that the back of a coin is called the reverse, and "obverse" is another name for the front.
- With the students, examine each of the five 2010 quarter designs. Locate each of the sites on a class map. Note their position in relation to your school's location. Demonstrate how to find the national sites located in each state, using your own state as an example. Answer any student questions.
- Allow the students time to research one of the featured states and identify which national sites are located there. Have the students record their findings for their own state and the chosen state on the "How Many Sites Are There?" worksheet.
- Model for the students how to create a graph using the graphing software and one of the examples from the previous class.
- Have the students complete the graphing project by choosing a graph style and creating a graph from the data on their "How Many Sites Are There?" worksheets with the graphing software. Help the students present the graphs to the class.
- Take anecdotal notes about the students' participation in class discussions.
- Use the students' worksheets and projects to evaluate whether they've met the lesson objectives.
Differentiated Learning
- Allow students to work in pairs.
- Allow students to use a scribe to label their worksheets.
- Allow students to use a template to complete the project.
Connections to www.usmint.gov/kids
- Have students learn more about graphs by using the Kindergarten and Grade One lesson plan at www.usmint.gov/educators/lessonPlans/50sq/1999/_k01.pdf.
- Have students learn more about graphs by using the Kindergarten and Grade One lesson plan at www.usmint.gov/educators/lessonPlans/50sq/2001/_k01-3.pdf.
- Have students learn more about other state quarter-dollar coins by playing Quarter Explorer at www.usmint.gov/kids/games/quarterExplorer.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (www.nctm.org)
- Data Analysis and Probability: Students will formulate questions that can be addressed with data and collect, organize, and display relevant data to answer them.
International Society for Technology in Education (www.iste.org)
- Research and Informational Fluency: Students apply digital tools to gather, evaluate, and use information.
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Helpful Hints
- Create your own sample graph using the software program to model the project expectations for the students.
- Fill in the name of your state on the "How Many Sites Are There?" worksheet ahead of time.
- Bookmark websites for the students to use in their research.
- Create a template on the software you will be using to help students complete the graph.
Student Version
You will learn how to complete a bar graph, line graph, or pictograph from the information that you will collect on the national sites.
Step-By-Step Directions
- Use the links on www.nps.gov to find out how many national sites are in your state.
- Record your state name and the number of sites on your "How Many Sites Are There?" worksheet.
- Now locate one of the featured states for 2010 and find out how many national sites are located there.
- Record that state name and the number of sites on your "How Many Sites Are There?" worksheet.
- Choose whether you want to make a bar graph, line graph, or pictograph.
- Using the graphing software, create your graph using the findings on your "How Many Sites Are There?" worksheet to show how many parks are in the two states that you researched.
- Present your graph to the class or another class when it is complete.


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Women's Basketball Hosting Lady Saints Tip-Off Classic
DAHLONEGA, Ga. – While the rest of the college basketball world has started the 2012-13 season, the North Georgia College & State University women's basketball team will open its season this weekend by hosting the two-day Lady Saints Tip-Off Classic on Friday, Nov. 16 and Saturday, Nov. 17 inside Memorial Hall Gymnasium.
Participating teams will include Carson-Newman College, fellow Peach Belt Conference school Georgia College & State University and the University of West Florida.
The Bobcats of Georgia College will kick-start the tournament with a 4:00 p.m. game against the Argonauts of West Florida on Friday. Following that contest, the Saints will host the Eagles of Carson-Newman in the night-cap with tip-off slated for 6:00 p.m.
The following day, Georgia College and Carson-Newman will square off on the hardwood starting at 2:00 p.m. with North Georgia and West Florida closing out the classic with a 4:00 p.m. matchup.
The Saints had their final tuneup of the season last Friday, Nov. 9 in an exhibtion against LaGrange College. North Georgia claimed an 86-72 victory with the Saints finishing the game shooting 50.8% (31-61) from the field.
2012 Daktronics National Player of the Year Jaymee Carnes picked up right where she left off as she went 8-for-14 from the field and 6-for-9 from the charity stripe to score 22 points. The 6-0 junior forward from Gainesville, Ga. also brought down nine rebounds and had two blocks in the contest and appears poised to lead the Saints once again this season.
Sophomore guard Stephanie Huffman also picked up where she left off as she tallied 13 points in the victory. Along with newcomer Cierra Jackson, the pair combined for eight assists and eight steals.
6-3 junior transfer Mimi Hill had a solid performance as she gave North Georgia 12 points and brought down five rebounds while freshman guard Keeley Chester added 11 points of her own including going 5-for-5 from the field.
Carson-Newman is currently 1-1 on the season as they lost to Coker College 59-56 in their season-opener and before picking up a dominating 85-45 victory over Erskine College in the South Atlantic Conference – Conference Carolinas Challenge. The Saints hold a 3-2 all-time record over the Eagles but the two programs have not met in women's basketball since Dec. 17, 2008 when Carson-Newman claimed a 76-72 win over the Saints.
The Eagles shot 38.1% (51-134) from the field in their first two games and made 14 three-pointers but they are hitting on just 58.1% (25-43) of their chances from the free throw line.
Shyra Brown and Chente Markus are leading the Eagles in scoring with 13.0 and 10.0 points per game respectively. Brown also leads the team with 8.0 rebounds per contest and five steals while Markus and Jai Jai McLaughlin both have seven assists on the season.
North Georgia is 1-0 all-time against the Argonauts who are 0-2 already on the season with losses to Southern Indiana (70-53) and Barry (58-55) in their own McDonald Fleming Moorhead Tip-Off Classic. As a team, the Argonauts hit on just 31.9% (38-119) of their looks from the field including going 6-for-37 (.162) from three-point range.
They are led by Emily Erland and Hanna Vette who both averaged 10.0 points per game in the tournament. Erland leads the team with a 42.9% (6-14) shooting percentage from the field while Jaymie Druding leads the team under the glass with 8.0 rebounds per contest.
Georgia College enters this weekend's tournament with a 0-1 record. The Bobcats fell 75-52 at home in their season-opener to the University of West Georgia this past Saturday.
The Bobcats shot 33.3% (17-51) from the field including making just one three-pointer and had two players finish in double-digit figures for points led by Shanteona Keys' 14. Tara Wornica added 13 and went 4-6 from the field and 5-9 from the free throw line.
Belinda Schaafsma and Enisha Donley led the team off the glass with six rebounds each.
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The Maroon and Gold ladies lost their first contest on Friday 14-0 to Red Bluff High. Sparks then capped the opening day of the tournament with a 9-1 loss to Enterprise from Redding, Calif. and a 9-4 defeat to Oreville. Two more losses followed on Saturday with the Railroaders landing on the wrong end of a 14-0 beating to Lassen and a 7-5 decision to South Tahoe.
"It's like I've said all year, we're a work in progress," Sparks coach Frank Avilla said. "We've improved dramatically down here. We competed well in the last few games of the tournament. Again, our greenhorn errors just showed through. That's our youth and those things happen, but we're getting better. We're getting a lot better. As a coach, I saw a lot of improvements. It was a very good learning experience for the kids."
Sparks (4-19, 3-7 Mount Rose League) will close out its season with a doubleheader at home against Truckee on Tuesday with first pitch set for 3 p.m. Despite the fact that the team did not reach the goals it had set for itself at the beginning of the season, Avilla remained optimistic.
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Casey Smith Named PBC Defensive Player of Week
DAHLONEGA, GA – North Georgia's Casey Smith has been named the Peach Belt Conference Defensive Player of the Week announced this afternoon by the league office.
Casey Smith led the Lady Saints to a 1-0-1 record in the opening weekend, scoring a pair of goals and adding an assist.
As a defender, the junior led North Georgia back in the final 15 minutes against the 24th-ranked Tampa Spartans in the season opener, scoring on a free kick before assisting the game-tying goal with under 10 minute to play to force a 2-2 tie.
Smith then came out against Barry University and gave the Lady Saints the lead for good in the second half with an unassisted goal that proved to be the difference in a 3-2 victory over the Bucs. Smith continued her streak of hot starts in 2009, having scored a goal in the season opener in each of her three seasons for North Georgia.
This marks the second straight year the Stockbridge, Ga., native captured a Peach Belt Conference weekly honor the first week of the season after being named the Offensive Player of the Week last season following a hat trick in the first game of the year.
The Lady Saints will play the final contest of a three-game road trip to start the season as they travel to the University of West Georgia to take on the Wolves next Friday afternoon at 4:00 p.m. The two teams battled to a double overtime scoreless tie last season in Dahlonega, as North Georgia is 1-0-1 all-time against their in-state rival.


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President Bush is intent on toughening restrictions on Cuba, while the American people and the U.S. Congress are ready to lift them
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U.S.-Cuban relations should be fascinating to observe over the next year or so, for increasingly the White House is moving in one direction while the American people and the Congress are moving in exactly the opposite.
President Bush seems determined to turn the clock back and adopt the most confrontational approach seen toward Cuba in many years. But most Americans and the U.S. Congress have concluded that the old policy of isolating the island nation doesn't work. Accordingly, this emerging majority wants to lift travel controls, remove restrictions on the sale of foods and medicines, and generally move toward a more open relationship with the island.
For his part, Cuban President Fidel Castro has adopted a more conciliatory approach, such as not objecting to the detention of al Qaeda and Taliban prisoners at the Guantánamo Naval Base. His attitude doesn't seem to presuppose a positive response from the White House, but presents an incentive to those in the Congress and the American body politic trying to change the policy.
For years, U.S. policy was in effect controlled by the hard-line elements in the Cuban-American community in Florida who wanted no engagement—or even dialogue—with the Castro government. They demanded that the embargo and all other sanctions be kept in place and even strengthened. To be sure, they were a tiny special interest group, but as few other Americans took much interest in Cuba, politicians tended to do their bidding. It was a classic case of the vocal minority bulldozing aside the silent majority.
All that began to change two years ago, however, with the Elián González case. The overwhelming majority of Americans were turned off by the attitude of the hard-line exiles in Miami who seemed willing to defy U.S. law, the attorney general and the obvious rights of the natural father. Americans simply recoiled at the exiles' demands that the boy remain in the U.S. Consequently, many Americans began to question the policy advocated by those exiles.
Meanwhile, the powerful American farm lobby demanded the right to sell agricultural products to Cuba, and American business interests requested the right to trade with and invest in Cuba. They and other advocates of policy change pointed out that the Cold War was over and that Cuba, according to our own Pentagon, in no way militarily threatened U.S. security. They argued that the whole thesis that economic denial would topple Castro or force him to democratize the island was demonstrably wrong, since in 40 years the strategy had not succeeded. We might accomplish far more, they insisted, by fostering trade and opening the doors between the two nations.
With pressures building from special interest groups whose views contrasted with those of the hard-liners in the Cuban-American community, Congress shifted its views. By the early fall of 2000, the House passed an amendment that authorized the sale of foods and medicines to Cuba and four other states: North Korea, Iran, Libya and the Sudan. At the last moment, however, Representative Tom DeLay of Texas, the Republican majority whip in the House, almost single-handedly diluted the amendment as it related to Cuba by forcing the attachment of a provision prohibiting even private bank credits to facilitate sales to the island (but not to the other countries on the list). Cuba said this was discriminatory and insulting and that it would not buy so much as a bean from the United States so long as these credit restrictions were in place.
Undaunted, anti-embargo forces vowed to return to the issue in 200l and remove DeLay's restrictions. They had the votes and almost certainly would have succeeded. The House also easily passed a measure to deny the expenditure of any Treasury funds to enforce travel controls. The Senate was prepared to go even further, lifting travel controls altogether. Again, they had the votes to do it. But then came the terrorist attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center on September 11. In response to a call to rally behind the president, the congressional leadership called for the withdrawal of all "contentious amendments." The authors of the Cuba-related amendments withdrew them—for that session of Congress.
That was perhaps the least of the changes resulting from September 11. The world underwent a sweeping political realignment, with Russia, China, India and Pakistan all suddenly aligned with the United States in the war on terrorism. Castro also condemned the September 11 attacks and terrorism in general. He expressed his solidarity with the American people and his willingness to cooperate with all nations in the struggle against terrorism. Cuba did criticize the massive U.S. bombardment of Afghanistan and the high numbers of civilian casualties. It never wavered at all, however, from its condemnation of the forces around Osama bin Laden.
Because of the contention between the United States and Cuba over the status of the Guantánamo Naval Base, Castro's graceful acceptance in January of the U.S. decision to detain al Qaeda and Taliban prisoners there was somewhat surprising. But his reaction was perfectly consistent with the antiterrorist position he had taken all along. It was accompanied, moreover, by expressions of a desire for a more cooperative relationship with the United States. Castro and other Cuban officials noted that the two countries were already cooperating to some extent in drug interdiction efforts and in handling problems of immigration. Why not in other areas as well, including the struggle against terrorism?
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